wilwood pedal setup. Need to tie this into the cage as it flexes the shell!

Bulge cut back and welded for top arm clearance.

MK1 column rebuilt

Most recently i've tubbed both the rear arches and taken off the hose bit on the rear arm to get it down quite low. There's no coilovers in this picture as the gaz ones i have don't go anywhere near this height. Getting some protechs to drop it down to near this height probably have the tyre under and inch from the arch. Also done a lot of bodywork. Shell was fubar'd crazing wise.

Protech rear coilovers turned up recently. I got them from protech themselves, shortest shock at 12" with a 7" 125lb spring.

Nice bit of kit, would have expected some information with them though. No idea which way the damping adjust goes. Obviously will be able to work it out, just nice if they came with some info!

Around 2 inches shorter over the lowered gaz one's. Which should get my car to a good height. If not i'll have to move the turret up.

For those interested, i weighed them both. Very good weight saving here! The gaz was to heavy for the scales (Scales only take 2300g), i would say they are 2400g each (lifted it slightly on the scales).

And the protech.....

Thats a 2kg saving. Although obviously I've saved a lot from the shock/springs being smaller in general.

Tubbing the minus arches is different to a normal mini as the rear quarter is joined to the inner arch higher up so i had just cut it up to this point both sides. I've now filled both sides with fibre filler as where it joins was like a big 'M' i've filled like the two ^ bits under the M (If thats makes any sense!). One side is smoothed off and done the other is still curing.

I then moved in the garage as it started raining. Did one of the jobs i've been avoiding and trimmed all the bonnet so it sits nicely. I just need to decide what to use in each corner to fix it. Also cut the mk3 front bit off.

Bought some cosmic arches, failed! Body is to low so they won't sit against it right.

Subframe finished up, took some idea's off here. I only took 600g off it though.

I had some suspension issues

Which were resolved with some help of Carl.

Saved 3.5kg in total switching to these! Me and a friend modified the normal brackets so they sat further out which added some extra weight which i included in that figure. I was not happy with them though hence the force racing arms.

Got the outside in primer.

Then put it up on its side.

for stonechip....

I used 4.5L of gravitex to do the whole underside. One coat accross the whole thing and then a few extra coats in the areas that will get the most stone damage.